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Originally released in 2000, DUMBING UP was reissued in 2006 (in a package with a DVD of the group's videos). As always, Karl Wallinger (the band is essentially Wallinger's one-man project) is deeply steeped in the sounds of the 1960s, referencing ... Full DescriptionNeil Young ("What Does It Mean Now?"), Crosby, Stills & Nash ("Til I Got You"), Bob Dylan ("Who Are You"), and the Beatles ("Another Thousand Years"). While Wallinger won't win any prizes for reinventing the wheel, his skills as a songwriter and builder of pop soundscapes are thoroughly winning, making DUMBING UP a fun, engaging listen from back to front.
This CD/DVD combination features a limited edition bonus DVD featuring almost three hours of all that is World Party: rare music videos, archival footage, live and studio performances, skits, hijinks and more. The CD features 12 recent hits. Hide Description World Party Dumbing Up Songs Purchase Dumbing Up CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Neil Young On The Beach CD (1974) Remastered
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After working his way through loss and chaos on the brilliant TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (recorded in 1973, but not released until 1975), Neil Young deftly exorcised any lingering demons with 1974's ON THE BEACH. The album opens with the saunter of the aptly titled "Walk On," followed by the utterly gorgeous, Wurlitzer-tinged "See the Sky about to Rain."
The set also features a trio of scathing songs--"Revolution Blues," "Vampire Blues," and "Ambulance Blues"--that address issues important to Young, both social and personal. It is good to hear Young back with such bite and vitriol, especially after the broken desperation of TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. But while ON THE BEACH is edgy and deeply felt, it also manages to sound liberating and relaxed, ...
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Casual observers might think that alt-rocker/power-popper Matthew Sweet simply fell off the map after his early-1990s success. In mainstream commercial terms there's some credence to that notion, but artistically, nothing could be further from the truth. Though he began to slip underneath the radar sometime in the late '90s, Sweet never stopped releasing melodic pop gems, as 2004's LIVING THINGS bears out.
Gone are Sweet's days of dirtying up his sweet tunes with chaotic lead guitar work from the likes of Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine. Around the turn of the decade, he started trafficking in a more lush, sparkling sound. The presence ...
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At a time when it seemed least likely, coming on the heels of a country album and after 15 years of optimists looking for the long-awaited heir to the classic SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS, Graham Parker made a successful return to his sharply rocking roots with 2005's SONGS OF NO CONSEQUENCE. While Parker's revisited his rock & roll past before, most notably in the mid-'90s with ACID BUBBLEGUM, he was never so obviously on point. His songwriting here is at its sharpest since the early '80s, no small thing for a man who made his reputation on acerbic wit and a winningly caustic worldview. He's supported here by members of the Figgs, who helped ...
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This is a fine album that paradoxically owes much of its originality to its up-front ...
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Simon Climie (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Chris Rodriguez (electric guitar, sitar); Tommy Sims (electric guitar, background vocals); Michael Thompson, Larry Carlton (guitar); Mark Douthit (saxophone); Tony Swain (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Tim Akers, Tim Carmen (Hammond B-3 organ); Bob James (keyboards); Nathan East (bass); Nicky "Mischief" Shaw (drums, percussion, programming); Harvey Mason (drums, percussion); Ricky Lawson (drums); Paul Waller (programming); Tracy Ackermann, Alfreda McCrary, Leon Ware (background vocals).
MOTOWN was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
As a guy who made his reputation for being neck-deep in the sounds of blue-eyed ...
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This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
With DEBUT, the Icelandic thrush Bjork Godmundsdottir (late of the Sugarcubes) brings her knowing innocence and quirky voice to bear on an engaging program of renegade pop tunes. The unusual instrumental textures on songs such as "Human Behavior," fleshed out with timpani, small percussion instruments, vibraphones and harps, suggests a post-modern version of Phil Spector.
As a singer, Bjork's swooping octave leaps and guttural cries betray the elemental contradictions in her music. She projects the girlish innocence and barely constrained sensuality of a wise child, old beyond her years (the techno-reggae romanticism of "Venus As A Boy," the bouncy house changes of "Big Time Sensuality" and "Violently Happy"), and sometimes she sounds like she's trying to rediscover how such doe-eyed love might actually feel, as if for the first time (the mysterious groove of "One Day" and the jazzy standard "Like Someone In Love," with its spare harp accompaniment).
There's a pronounced techno feel to ...
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